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Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Kat Marchán 🐈"):
catsalad@infosec.exchange ("Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw:⁠:paw:") wrote:

Ask your vet if cat extensions are right for you.

Boosted by jwz:
netblocks ("NetBlocks") wrote:

⚠️ Update: #Iran has now been offline for 12 hours with national connectivity flatlining at ~1% of ordinary levels, after authorities imposed a nationwide internet blackout in an attempt to suppress sweeping protests while covering up reports of regime brutality 📉

jwz wrote:

Eyeball Landscape.

It has only just come to my attention that the Brazil "eyeball" sequence was actually filmed. I may need to make adjustments to the Peepers screensaver.
https://jwz.org/b/yk1g

Boosted by jwz:
angiebaby@mas.to ("Angie") wrote:

The number of Gestapo in Germany was 32,000. The population was 70 million. That's one Gestapo for every 2200 citizens.

The number of ICE agents is 20,000. The population of the US is 348 million. That's one ICE agent for every 17,000 citizens.

There are more of us.

#USPol

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

We’re mobilizing across the country this weekend to honor Renee Nicole Good, demand accountability for ICE’s killing of Renee, and make visible the human cost of ICE’s terror: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F8Iu3kLxOuzXax%5FAwrQgiOtggsEtasx4-Wvi9oNavtg/edit?usp=drivesdk

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

RE: https://syzito.xyz/@selzero/115862360219972810

If/when we get a democrat administration again, they'll fear monger crime and set record breaking budgets for ICE and police again, and again we'll hear the rationale that we must do this to court white moderates, and again, we'll demand that Black and brown people fall in line.

This anger we feel today will fade, like the anger after George Floyd's murder, and it'll be the same thing over and over.

How can anyone not get how infuriating that is?

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
TomF@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Tom Forsyth") wrote:

Recent discussion about the perils of doors in gamedev reminded me of a bug caused by a door in a game you may have heard of called "Half Life 2". Are you sitting comfortably? Then I shall begin.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
evacide@hachyderm.io wrote:

Ten years ago, if someone had told me that tech policy bloggers would be calling for ICE to be abolished, I would have thought it very unlikely.

"Abolish ICE" is an increasingly mainstream and extremely correct position.

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/08/abolish-ice-before-they-kill-again-impeach-trump-noem-before-they-incite-more-murder/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
carsten@minnesotasocial.net ("Carsten") wrote:

Hello Minnesota!

This is a new server for people who live in Minnesota. We hope to connect people in the state and the greater fediverse.

#Minnesota #MN

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

HCR is calling them what they are: fascists.

https://www.youtube.com/live/CQPOHCoTbgE?si=aOkxf58VwInB9qts

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
vga256@tomodori.net wrote:

a few years ago i mentioned that i wrote a book about the exciting, awkward and embarrassing experiences of growing up with computers and video games in the 80s and 90s.

i wanted to remember what it felt like being the only dorky computer kid at school. or what it was like to hear my first modem handshake sound. or starting the first flamewar on the school's national FirstClass BBS in the macintosh lab over the lunch-hour

it was originally something i wrote only for my family and friends who were there at the time.

and then i met all of you folks when i started my first masto instance 4 years ago. i had no idea there were so many hardcore retrocomputing and gaming nerds out there; unix and mac and ms-dos folks alike.

so i mentioned it casually. i was surprised by the interest in the book.

so i spent the better part of the past 3 years rewriting the book for *you* fellow mastodon dorkus malorkuses. the book is a celebration of all of the best (and worst) parts of a kid growing up in the digital age.

we're all busy old tired stressed folks now. so every memory and cringetacular story is short enough to read on a 5 minute bus/metro/toilet ride. they're weaved together into an arc that starts at my family's first Tandy TRS-80 and ends at my school's Mac LC II and building my first Pentium 133.

it's finally published, and i'm super proud of what it became thanks to everyone here nerding out for years.

enjoy the book. i wrote it just for you. ❤️

paperback edition: https://mybook.to/EDuUf

DRM-free ebook (EPUB format) and chapter samples here:
https://tomotama.itch.io/mages-modems

#books #indiePublisher #bookstodon #author #macintosh #vintageApple #vintageComputing #msdos #dosGaming #yeg #canada #alberta #bbs #smolWeb #indieWeb

[![The rear cover of the book, showing a Carmen Sandiego-style letter from the ACME Detective agency. The letter has a picture of a spazzing out kid wearing a Just Do It sweater. The letter reads: ACME Detective Agency Dear Detective #0294, As discussed, I have enclosed a hardcopy of VGA256's journals discussed at the departmental briefing. The journal entries are chronological, and document the suspect's computing and gaming activities from the early 1980s to late 1990s - his childhood and adolescent years. Each vignette is an introspection into the suspect's self-described obsessions, including but not limited to: * IBM PC, Amiga, Apple ], Macintosh, Tandy * MS-DOS, MacOS, Windows 3.1 & 95, UNIX * NES, GameBoy, Sega Genesis, TI-85 * Modems, BBSes, CompuServe, Prodigy, ISPs * Warez, FTP, Usenet, IRC, Shell Accounts * Origin Systems, LucasArts, and Sierra On-Line ... and so on. The stories are a treasure trove of immoral and illicit activities that made him the dysfunctional adult he is now. I hope these will be of value in building your dossier on this delinquent. I expect a report on my desk by Friday. Deputy Chief Conover Brat & Punk Division]20

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
beyondmachines1@infosec.exchange ("BeyondMachines :verified:") wrote:

#Sloperator

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ajroach42@retro.social ("Andrew (Television Executive)") wrote:

Standard eBooks celebrates public domain day: https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2026

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
losso3000 wrote:

Yo dawg, I herd you like Amiga mouse pointers? Well, here’s all of them!

https://heckmeck.de/pointers/

#amiga #pixelart

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Arcangelo Corelli dies in Italy, 1713

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: David Bowie (then David Robert Jones) is born in London, 1947

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Elvis Presley born in East Tupelo, Mississippi, 1935

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Monaco gains its independence, 1297

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Battle of New Orleans

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Justice Dept. drops IBM suit, 1982

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Herman Hollerith patents first data processing computer, 1889

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: American Telephone and Telegraph loses antitrust case, 1982

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

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Boosted by jwz:
netblocks ("NetBlocks") wrote:

⚠️ Confirmed: Telemetry indicate a major disruption to networks in Belgorod, western #Russia, after Ukraine targets the region's energy installations with missiles; initial analysis suggests one of the most effective infrastructure strikes by Ukraine since the start of the war

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kenwhite.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("We’re Going To Keep The Popehat") wrote:

It is the position of the Trump Administration that its agents can come into any state and city in America (let alone other countries) and kill people and that state and city have no jurisdiction to inquire about it. Treat any Trump official accordingly.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3mbwhpvwctp2q

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
aboutsignal ("Signal News & Tips") wrote:

Signal massively downloaded amid rising tensions, number one in Denmark 🇩🇰 🇬🇱

People are looking for a safer alternative to WhatsApp

👉 https://aboutsignal.com/news/signal-massively-downloaded-amid-rising-tensions-number-one-in-denmark/

#signal #signalmessenger #signalapp #tech #privacy #whatsapp #denmark #greenland #news

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@PCMag/115856696065155915

Not content with littering up the Earth, the billionaires are now coming for our night sky too. I wish we could shoot all of it down.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Wired (who are not on Mastodon!?) is dissembling.

https://www.wired.com/story/x-grok-app-store-nudify-csam-apple-google-content-moderation/

The answer to "why is X still in app stores?" is obvious: the fascists like it.

App stores are centralised rentiers, ergo easy to coerce when proprietors are avaricious bootlickers. Wired's *so close* to connecting the dots, but fail here yet again. From last Oct:

https://infrequently.org/2025/10/the-app-store-was-always-authoritarian/

/cc @pluralistic

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
nullagent@partyon.xyz wrote:

There's some more details about what happened at the high school ICE attempted to storm after murdering Renee Good.

It seems ICE rolled up with several vehicles and in short order ended up pepper spraying students and fighting with passers by.

📸 mrs.frazzled via Facebook

#ReneeGood #minneapolis #PublicSchool #FuckICE

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